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    Online Dating Is So Awful That People Are Paying Virtual Dating Assistants To Impersonate Them

    You could be flirting on dating apps with paid impersonators
    https://qz.com/1247382/online-dating...ersonate-them/

    Every morning I wake up to the same routine. I log into the Tinder account of a 45-year-old man from Texas—a client. I flirt with every woman in his queue for 10 minutes, sending their photos and locations to a central database of potential “Opportunities.” For every phone number I get, I make $1.75.

    I’m what’s called a “Closer” for the online-dating service ViDA (Virtual Dating Assistants). Men and women (though mostly men) from all over the world pay this company to outsource the labor and tedium of online dating. The matches I speak to on behalf of the Texan man and other clients have no idea they’re chatting with a professional.

    It shouldn’t come as a surprise that these ghostwriting services exist. Tinder alone produces more than 12 million matches a day, and if you’re a heterosexual American, you now have a one in three chance of meeting your future husband or wife online. But as e-romance hits an all-time high, our daily dose of rejection, harassment, and heartbreak creeps upward, too. Once you mix in the vague rules of netiquette and a healthy fear of catfishing scams, it’s easy to see why someone might want to outsource their online-dating profile to a pro, if only to keep themselves sane.

    But where does the digital social assistant end and the con artist begin?

    The online seduction manual

    When I tell people that I work as an online-dating assistant, their initial reaction is of morbid curiosity. “How did you even find out about that?” they ask, voices lowering, leaning in.

    In November 2017, I ran across an ad seeking “people with good Tinder skills” for a job as a “Virtual Dating Assistant.” At first I thought it was a joke, but I completed their online form out of pure fascination. I received a callback three days later.

    Apparently, professional writers make for good online-dating assistants; knowing how to seduce strangers with the written word is the company’s mandate, after all. But the intake interviewer seemed just as interested in my ethical flexibility as he was in the journalistic details of my résumé. Could I work in an “moral gray area?” Would I be comfortable ranking clients’ photographs? Was I dating anyone currently?

    I learned that there are two main types of writers at the company: “Profile Writers,” who create seductive and click-worthy profiles based on facts our clients have supplied about themselves, and “Closers,” who log in to clients’ dating accounts at least twice a day to respond to messages from matches.

    Despite hiring writers to do this work, virtually none of what the company does requires creativity of any kind. Profile Writers follow strict guidelines, often recycling the same half-dozen clichés over and over again. If a client has a dog (jackpot!), all the Profile Writer needs to do is search for the word “dog” in their manual and choose from a list of dog-related one-liners, like this one:

    “Hey. As an animal lover, I want to find out your opinion… dressing up your dog: yes or no?”

    The process for Closers is a bit more complicated. The initial training period lasts several weeks before we’re given access to clients’ accounts, during which we must read several training manuals and submit draft responses to fake matches. At first, my trainer encouraged me to get creative with my replies, but by the third week, I was still getting back extensive rewrites. My most frequent mistake was asking career-oriented questions, which were deemed too difficult for some women to answer. “She seems more simple,” my trainer would write in response. “Let’s try a different approach.” My meaningful questions would disappear from our shared GoogleDoc, replaced by simpler, condescending small talk.

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    Online Dating Is So Awful That People Are Paying Other People To Make It Even Worse!

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    Quote Originally Posted by angelatc View Post
    Online Dating Is So Awful That People Are Paying Other People To Make It Even Worse!
    More worser?

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    Even the internet can't mask weak social skills.

    Get out there and meet people.
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    Is this "Tinder" thing "free"? You get what you pay for.
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    Quote Originally Posted by heavenlyboy34 View Post
    Is this "Tinder" thing "free"? You get what you pay for.
    I heard someone say this, whenever a good or service is free, you are the good or service . So yes, Tinder is still "free" and I am back on it again

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    The matches I speak to on behalf of TheTexan man and other clients have no idea they’re chatting with a professional.
    "He's talkin' to his gut like it's a person!!" -me
    "dumpster diving isn't professional." - angelatc
    "You don't need a medical degree to spot obvious bullshit, that's actually a separate skill." -Scott Adams
    "When you are divided, and angry, and controlled, you target those 'different' from you, not those responsible [controllers]" -Q

    "Each of us must choose which course of action we should take: education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes. But let it not be said that we did nothing." - Ron Paul

    "Paul said "the wave of the future" is a coalition of anti-authoritarian progressive Democrats and libertarian Republicans in Congress opposed to domestic surveillance, opposed to starting new wars and in favor of ending the so-called War on Drugs."



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    Quote Originally Posted by heavenlyboy34 View Post
    Is this "Tinder" thing "free"? You get what you pay for.
    They have paid premium service where you can change your location and tinder with people anywhere in the world, whereas the free service uses your GPS location and you get to set how many miles away you are looking for (this works best for most people anyway).

    There are a couple of other perks for premium service, like you can go back and like or not like someone if you accidentally swiped the wrong way, might be some others.. I think they automatically show you people who liked you whereas with the regular service you have to wait for them to come up in your stack.
    "He's talkin' to his gut like it's a person!!" -me
    "dumpster diving isn't professional." - angelatc
    "You don't need a medical degree to spot obvious bullshit, that's actually a separate skill." -Scott Adams
    "When you are divided, and angry, and controlled, you target those 'different' from you, not those responsible [controllers]" -Q

    "Each of us must choose which course of action we should take: education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes. But let it not be said that we did nothing." - Ron Paul

    "Paul said "the wave of the future" is a coalition of anti-authoritarian progressive Democrats and libertarian Republicans in Congress opposed to domestic surveillance, opposed to starting new wars and in favor of ending the so-called War on Drugs."

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    Quote Originally Posted by dannno View Post

    @TheTexan must be too busy voting, so he uses this service.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Danke View Post
    @TheTexan must be too busy voting, so he uses this service.
    Yes, however I do enjoy the swiping on tinder. It's like voting, but on chicks, instead of people.
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    Some of you guys I would impersonate for free .

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    Quote Originally Posted by oyarde View Post
    Some of you guys I would impersonate for free .
    Make a composite tinder for RPFs and post it in hot topics.

    See who our "closest allies" are.

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    I wonder how much this costs?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Collins View Post
    I wonder how much this costs?


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    $1.75 per number

    Quality not guaranteed.
    "He's talkin' to his gut like it's a person!!" -me
    "dumpster diving isn't professional." - angelatc
    "You don't need a medical degree to spot obvious bullshit, that's actually a separate skill." -Scott Adams
    "When you are divided, and angry, and controlled, you target those 'different' from you, not those responsible [controllers]" -Q

    "Each of us must choose which course of action we should take: education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes. But let it not be said that we did nothing." - Ron Paul

    "Paul said "the wave of the future" is a coalition of anti-authoritarian progressive Democrats and libertarian Republicans in Congress opposed to domestic surveillance, opposed to starting new wars and in favor of ending the so-called War on Drugs."

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    Quote Originally Posted by dannno View Post
    $1.75 per number

    Quality not guaranteed.
    Hooker potlucks



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    That moment when you run into a profile that looks legit only for it to be a fake account.

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    Wow that is cheap
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